Better question:
Why are we so angry? Because the majority of us consists of petty-minded, self-entitled retards, totally oblivious to the fact that at this stage almost all things that get us worked up are at worst first world problems.
In other news, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, who works for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, meekly pointed out our smugness on ANZAC Day, when she posted this on her facebook page: "Lest. We. Forget. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine.)" Manus and Nauru are two offshore concentration camps for asylum seekers. The government has decided that it is better top spend somewhere around $2000 per day to imprison each asylum seeker than the $38 a day it costs to let them live freely.
For that she received thousands of posts consisting overwhelmingly of abuse, insults, death threats and the usual garbage the plebs come up with, but things got worse. Today Senator Abetz announced that he asked foreign minister, Julie Bishop to sack her. It puzzles me how Abetz could possibly be unaware that Bishop is not the minister for communications, and that even if we were, she could make no such decision. Although the ABC is taxpayer funded, it is independently run. Politicians of any stripe are expressly forbidden to interfere with its management.
The kicker is the Senator's reasoning: Yassmin Abdel-Magied is denigrating Australian values. Does he really think Australian values resulting in the outsourcing of concentration camps are to be held in high esteem? And they definitely
are Australian values. They have bipartisan support in parliament because the "honourable" members of both houses fear they will lose their seats at the next election if they oppose them.
The values, as expressed in four of our national anthem's stanzas, are a myth:
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share;
With courage let us all combine
To Advance Australia Fair.